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TIL Chattanooga, Tennessee has broadband internet that is 200 times faster than the national average in the US.

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xrV5 TIL serial killer Robert Hansen abducted his victims and flew them to his isolated cabin in the Alaskan mountains. He then released them and hunted them with a knife and a Ruger Mini-14.
wAr1 TIL that the IKEA HQ in Delft, Netherlands had to stop offering their €1,- breakfast during the weekends because the highways couldn’t handle the traffic it attracted.
4X4YR TIL In almost every country the world over, Jews have faced religious persecution but India is one of the few countries where Jews were never ill-treated.In 1948, after the formation of the state of Israel, 33000 Jews migrated to Israel leaving behind around 5000 Jews in India.
BBmd TIL Wyatt Earp may have descended fom Americas first serial killers, the Harpe Brothers. Who murdered up to 40 people and even bashed an infant against a tree for crying. One was beheaded, his head left on a spike. That area is still known in Kentucky as “Harpe’s Head’
BrlYD TIL the Turkish sultan Alp Arslan took great pride in his archery. When a captured enemy drew his dagger and charged him, Arslan waived his guards away and drew his bow. He missed, got stabbed in the chest and died four days later from his wounds.